After her came jolly June, arrayed All in green leaves, as he a player were; Yet in his time he wrought as… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
Minds fettered by this doctrine no longer inquire concerning a proposition whether it is attested by sufficient evidence, but whether it accords… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It has long been a bug bear of mine... it needs to change, very simply. — Lucinda Creighton Copy Share Image
Existing economics is a theoretical system which floats in the air and which bears little relation to what happens in the real… — Ronald Coase Copy Share Image
Never think that wars are irrational catastrophes: they happen when wrong ways of thinking and living bring about intolerable situations ... the… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Look, I really do not care about you. What I care about is the worlds that you bear witness to. You are… — Michael Lesy Copy Share Image
Someone — Cyril Connolly? Ezra Pound? — once said that anything that can be read twice is literature; I would say that… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
I love those adult writers with the pranking ethos, [Don] DeLillo and [Donald] Barthelme and David Foster Wallace. I don't see any… — Mac Barnett Copy Share Image
We see the wisdom of Solon's remark, that no more good must be attempted than the nation can bear. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I constantly watch 'The Simpsons' and an English cartoon called 'The Raccoons' and 'Gummi Bears.' I was obsessed with ninja films, and… — Matt Smith Copy Share Image
Doth the Reality of sensible things consist in being perceived? or, is it something distinct from their being perceived, and that bears… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
The solving of almost every crime mystery depends on something which seems, at first glance, to bear no relation whatever to the… — Elsa Barker Copy Share Image
The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
If there's one thing I can't bear, it's when hundreds of old men come creeping in through the window in the middle… — Peter Cook Copy Share Image
Taxation being a burthen, must needs weigh lightest on each individual, when it bears upon all alike. — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
A martyr is the one who bears witness that the Shari'ah of Allah is more valuable to him than his own life. — Sayyid Qutb Copy Share Image
I'm praying to the Creator of the world, the King of the universe, the all-powerful, all-knowing, all-faithful God. I'm praying to the… — Bill Hybels Copy Share Image
William untucked the covers and stood, making a mental list of everything he'd need for the coming trip. A few blades, serrated… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Live loath'd and long, Most smiling, smooth, detested parasites, Courteous destroyers, affable wolves, meek bears, You fools of fortune, trencher friends, time… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Seeds, there are seeds enough which need only be stirred in with the soil where they lie, by an inspired voice or… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
No citizen of this nation is worthy of the name unless he bears unswerving loyalty to the system under which he lives,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even in the heat of a middlegame battle the master still has to bear in mind the outlines of a possible future… — David Bronstein Copy Share Image